Review by: Captain Fidanza
So light falls. But does it, I wonder, fall on light falls?
That smart-aleck reference to Godspeed is, for once, apposite, as three members of the Montreal pioneers feature as guests on this extraordinary record from the Fidanza-endorsed Wrekmeister Harmonies.
The album is all about what the artists themselves describe as “slow, creeping change” and as the first song builds ominously from a few scattered sounds toward the screaming squall of mangled violins, the listener does indeed get the impression that something, somewhere is changing and not perhaps for the better.
It would be largely pointless for me to try to review this objectively; I love this band and their previous albums which I have been fortunate enough to review on these very pages. This is deep and desperate music, recorded as the darkness of night slowly envelops it, trying endlessly to find what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light.”